Probing Popular Culture: On and Off the Internet

by Marshall Fishwick

Overview

When it comes to seeing depth and lateral connections in the development of popular culture, nobody exceeds Marshall Fishwick.
-Canadian Psychology

In Probing Popular Culture: On and Off the Internet, one of the leading authorities in American and popular culture studies presents an eye-opening examination o

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136765520
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	308
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Marshall Fishwick

Table of Contents

About the Author Contributors Foreword (Tom Wolfe) Preface (Peter Rollins) Acknowledgments Introduction: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century Notes from the Backbench PROBING THE POPULAR The Probing Process Pioneer Probers Probing a Frenzy The American Studies Link The Popular Culture Boom The East-West Pop Link The Great Tradition LOOKING AROUND Pop Hype The Gap To Hack or Not to Hack 9/11 Cyberlore Heroes: From Haloes to Handcuffs Connecting the Dots Spoiled by Success LOOKING BACK The Cowboy and World Mythology Paul Bunyan: Fakelore Meets Folklore The Sign of the T: Henry Ford Folk-Joke: Joe Magarac ARF Thunder from the Pulpit LOOKING AHEAD Living with Machines Wanted: A New Mythology Helping Humpty-Dumpty What Lies Ahead? Petite Probes OTHER VOICES The Virus of Superficial Popular Culture Studies (Ray B. Browne) Teachers, Teens, and Technology (Katherine Lynde) The Realm of Splogia: A Report to the World Anthropological Legation (James Combs) My Students Speak Epilogue: How Are We Different? Appendix: Essential Electronic Resources Further Reading Notes Index

What People are Saying About This

Daniel Walden

Get this book. Read it. Use it. . . . An exhilarating collection of short, vignette-like chapters with an incredible range. . . . Establishes that there is a new form of culture—one that combines great technical sophistication with a Rude Boy atmosphere.
—PhD, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, Penn State University

Kathy Merlock Jackson

Written in a lively, readable style. . . . Engages readers from the get-go, compelling them to think. Fishwick demonstrates his grasp of how the various elements of our popular culture coexist, how they have developed over time, and what they mean. Impressive in its sweep, this book leaves no aspect of our culture unexamined.
—PhD, Editor of The Journal of American Culture; Past-President, American Culture Association

Editorial Reviews

When it comes to seeing depth and lateral connections in the development of popular culture, nobody exceeds Marshall Fishwick.

Canadian Psychology